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| 1820 | Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, was born in Florence, Italy. |
| 1870 | Manitoba entered the confederation as a Canadian province. |
| 1932 | The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J. |
| 1937 | Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey. |
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| 1943 | Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II. |
| 1965 | West Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations. |
| 1970 | The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice. |
| 1972 | The album "Exile on Main St." by the Rolling Stones was released. |
| 1982 | Security guards in Fatima, Portugal, overpowered a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who was trying to reach Pope John Paul II. |
| 1992 | Four suspects were arrested in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny at the start of the Los Angeles riots. |
| 2002 | Jimmy Carter became the first present or former U.S. president to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959. |
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| 2003 | Suicide bombers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 26 people, including nine U.S. citizens. |
| 2003 | Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers brought the Texas House to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan. |
